Community Portal/Community Sheriff

Community "Sheriff"

I have been appointed the community's first "Sheriff". What this means is that I have access to a special "rollback" tool for reverting pages (useful for fighting spam/vandalization), and that I can lock and unlock pages (and edit locked pages). I have been chosen, as far as I can tell, because I was the one who bugged Bethesda about making one, though I also have some seniority around here. I'm told this is a "trial run" and that others may be promoted as well in the future. --DragoonWraith TALK 00:02, 27 June 2007 (EDT)

As of yesterday Haama and I have been promoted to Sheriff, the three of us will be busy with the reorganization for now and as part of that we'll see if any protected pages need attention. Congratulations Haama!

--Qazaaq 12:37, 12 January 2008 (EST)

Sheriff Action Requests

This really should go in my Talk page or something, but since there was a section about this before, I'm putting it back. After things get settled, I expect to remove it.

First of all, a number of requests had been made, regarding the site design, the search engine, and the Toolbox. I cannot do any of these things, but I have passed these requests on to Bethesda directly (as I do not expect that they check here regularly).

Further, I'd asked for suggestions for changes to the Main Page, most notably the blurb in the top right, and the Featured Article that hasn't changed since the Wiki began. --DragoonWraith TALK 00:02, 27 June 2007 (EDT)

I think 'the blurb' is looking quite good like this, there isn't much you can change. For the featured article I'd suggest A beginner's guide by dtom, it's an excellent guide and I'd be nice to see something different. --Qazaaq 10:15, 27 June 2007 (EDT)

It's probably best to leave this section here. The equivalent page at UESP would be the Administrator Noticeboard. Ideally there will be more than one Sheriff, and people filling such positions come and go -- and for both these reasons, the relevant discussion should be in a common area, not on a particular Sheriff's page. Granted some small nuts and bolts stuff is likely to end up on DW's page, but larger issues should be here. (Or, if the discussion gets too large, on a separate common page.) --Wrye 16:46, 4 July 2007 (EDT)

Good call on the common area for multiple "sheriffs" (I think the title's a little silly sounding), I hadn't thought that far ahead. Here this will stay.

Dragoon Wraith TALK 00:05, 5 July 2007 (EDT)

Couldn't find a better place for this request. It would need to go to Bethesda. I would like to request the addition of the Parser Functions. This would allow a number of flow control functions (conditionals) to be used in the creation of templates. It is a very standard extension for MW sites since 1.6/1.7, and would be very handy to have here.

--Niaht 02:17, 31 December 2007 (EST)

GStaff is pretty approachable, and you can ask him yourself. PM on Bethesda forums would probably be the best way.

--Haama 18:24, 31 December 2007 (EST)

Thanks for the information Haama. I've made the request to GStaff via PM.

--Niaht 20:37, 31 December 2007 (EST)

This should get its own page now, I think.
Dragoon Wraith TALK 18:54, 19 February 2008 (EST)

Well, no objections, so I'm gonna go ahead and do that.

Dragoon Wraith TALK 11:43, 7 March 2008 (EST)